Help!

[Flick]

Hi!

I am trying to make a bassline for some hip hop rap songs i am doing, and cannot for the life of me find the bass i want! all the bass sounds i have are either cheap corny synths, or fake sounding bass guitars.

Here is where i need someones help! if anyone could somehow send me a bass sound or two as a wav, mp3 or whatever is convenient, it would be greatly appreciated! i am looking ofr that bass that one would frequently hear in rap music...the deep rumbling kind...aol name is djflickdj

to anyone who helps, thanks so much!!!

-Eric

 

[Richard Monroe]

Put a Bass POD Pro in the rack, jack it into the board, get any decent Bass with new strings, and dial it up, man...Richie

 

[Evildick]

What soundcard and software are you using? You may be able to use SoundFonts to get a better bass sound.

 

[Seanmorse79]

Are you talking about 808 bass? (long deep sub tones that rumble the neighbors windows). There are a bunch of drum machines that have it. One of them the Boss Dr. Rhythm. I think it came from an early Roland drum machine (an 808) in the 80's that everybody in rap/hip-hop kind of took to.

There is a program the emulates this drum machine, but I can't think of it for the life of me.

 

[regebro]

There are several programs that emulate TR-808's. The best one is Rebirth from Propellerheads (http://www.propellerheads.se/).
You'll have serious problems getting those deep rumbling things out of it though, or for that matter out of a real 808.
But if you take a low 808 kick and sample it and play it out at half speed, then you got something!

Rebirth emulates a TR-808, a TR-808 and two TB-303. And you can get some seriously funky basslines from a TB-303, so if that's what you want, check out Rebirth. Check it out anyway, for that matter, it's totally cool!

 

[Seanmorse79]

REBIRTH!! I almost hurt myself trying to remember that name

...my memory isn't so good - too many drugs in the 60's ...hey wait, I was born in the 70's! ...maybe it was my parents